Oh My Quads!

Back in October and November I had a really nice time of traveling. My trip to Hawaii and then California were one of the best I’ve ever had.

No, it was the best.

I explored the island, met a lot of fun people, had some great food. But I also worked out consistently, five to six days a week just like I do at home. I went to the hotel gym a couple of times, but most of the time I took advantage of the gorgeous weather and fresh air and took my exercises outside.

My go-to equipment: my own body and a jump rope. You can do a ton of things with these valuable pieces of equipment!

Many times I worked out with my husband. I like partner workouts a lot.

All of them took, as always, 30 minutes at most, so we still had plenty of time to do other fun things, meet up with friends and do some work too.

The things are little different here in Finland where I’m staying right now. You can run outside, but sprinting is not really an option at this time of the year because it can be really slippery.

All the water / snow / mud that is around at this time of the year doesn’t leave you too many options to do burpees at the park or box jumps on the wet bench. So I have to get really creative to put together a good, efficient and hard workout that I can do inside in my room with minimal equipment.

That’s exactly what I did this morning. I wanted to put together a workout that would target all the bigger muscle groups, so my beloved burpees were obviously going to be one part of the workout.

Just yesterday I read an article about the importance of training the glutes. So I guess it kind of stuck to my head – train your butt! This workout definitely kicked by butt, but even more so, my quads.

I guess I was in a mood of torturing myself or something. When I first put this workout together in my mind, I wasn’t really sure if I’d be able to finish it. Even a 100 air squats are quite a bit of work.

But once I had decided, there was no way back. This is what I love about hard workouts – when you complete something that seemed so, so hard to do – you get a ton of confidence once you have finished.

That’s the best feeling!

How do you motivate yourself when a workout gets really hard?

Do you keep it shorter, do less reps or do you always finish what you have planned?